Lobotomy (: "lobe (of brain)"; τομή – tomē: "cut/slice") is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from the Greek λευκός – leukos: "clear/white" and tome). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. While the procedure, initially termed a leucotomy, has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream procedure for more than two decades, prescribed for psychiatric (and occasionally other) conditions—this despite general recognition o...

Lobotomy (: "lobe (of brain)"; τομή – tomē: "cut/slice") is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from the Greek λευκός – leukos: "clear/white" and tome). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. While the procedure, initially termed a leucotomy, has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream procedure for more than two decades, prescribed for psychiatric (and occasionally other) conditions—this despite general recognition o...

Yes, the Wikipedia oneboxes only do a very simple stripping of the content returned from Wikipedia's API. To show the full content, we'd need a full Wikitext parser and all of Wikipedia's templates. Considering that the current handling works fine in most cases, and that you'd read the actual art...

I'm Don,
I have a wave file of chicken voices. Among the voices there is a sound of chicken vommit.
So I've already convert the audio to matlab plot, but don't have the idea on how to
differentiate between the surround chicken voices and the vommit chicken.
I hope somebody can give me the ...

Many other query editors use Ctrl/⌘ Command + ⏎ Enter to execute the current query, and it would be great if the Data Explorer could do the same.
It would save the world so much time if we all didn't have to:
Move our hand over to the mouse
drag the cursor over to the button
Click each time w...

@cdeszaq Well I usually take a peek at the data inside as well-- My general method of SQLing is thus: Do bunch of EXPLAINs (look at schema if possible), root around in db (check how the data is stored), etc. Probably inefficient, but schemas end up confusing me

@jadarnel27 Nope...

It's just my extremely weird way of using SQL--I'm much more efficient at a terminal (with a schema in front of me preferably)

@ManishEarth I think that's pretty much how most people do it, depending on their level of access to the DB. reverse-engineering tools that can take a DB connection and give you a diagram are fantastic if you have them though.

@ManishEarth 1.) MS Access is not a DBMS, it's more of a very evil torture device and should not be preferred by anyone. 2.) Yes, PHPMyAdmin and similar things are great, but a diagram (esp. with FK connections) conveys much more information much more quickly.

@cdeszaq MS access was just an example--the only one I could remember--I doubt anyone prefers it. There are rather long and weird names I can't recall that I've heard.. PHPMyadmin I've used a tiny bit, so that cropped up. MS-anything is usually an evil-torture-device

@ManishEarth And it makes you wonder how much overlap there is in these lists from various people. If we could capture that and cross-link it, that might be a great way to get people focused and get things done. (Note to self: make this)

:"WP:B" redirects here. You might be looking for , , or .
:"WP:BOT" redirects here. You might be looking for .
A bot (derived from 'robot') is an automated or semi-automated tool that carries out repetitive and mundane tasks in order to maintain the articles of the English Wikipedia. Bots are able to make edits very rapidly and can disrupt Wikipedia if they are incorrectly designed or operated. For these reasons a bot policy has been developed.
There are currently bot tasks approved for use on the English Wikipedia; however, they are not all actively carrying out edits. Bots will le...

Pops-Perturbing Pedantic Problem of the Day: bizarre documentation requirements. I shouldn't be forced to specify things like "press TAB to move to the next field." Is my software going to people who have never used computers before?

Here on stackexchange, when you have a new message in your Stackoverflow inbox, and when you click the link and are navigated/jumped-to it, it fades in orange and then fades out. whenever I want to be able to have a fade in-fade out highlight color of a section that was jumped to following a link...

In fairness, it's rare for this to happen to suggestions that actively make a post worse; usually I see this happen to suggestions that keep overall quality about constant, or only fix two out of the 50 errors. I don't have the specific link handy anymore.

That, or the fix is no better than the original (e.g. equally incorrect code formatting), or the fix improves some things while introducing new errors (e.g. turning "how i can this do wit html" into "How cand I to this with HTMl").

That would be a great* rep harvesting strategy for a newbie, though. 1) Find post containing 100 errors 2) Submit suggested edit that fixes only one of the errors 3) Wait for the edit to be approved 4) If rep cap not reached, GOTO 2. *: and by "great," I mean "terrible."

I flagged a question with 4 close-votes. It looks like a fifth person came and closed the question. Under flag weight, there seemed to be no effect but the response was none. What exactly does that mean, and under what circumstances will that show up?

@DanielFischer At some level, that matters. Likely at the compiler or file transfer performance level, not code execution, but who knows. I'm sure there are lots of "flexible" systems for which that question would matter in a big way.

@DanielFischer Hrm. I was planning to reply with this, which was said by balpha himself, but I can't find the (original) source... even Google is coming up short, which makes me think it's been deleted.

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 110,000 characters covering 100 scripts, a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding methodology and set of standard character encodings, an enumeration of character properties such as upper and lower case, a set of reference data compute...

In looking at the questions, they pretty much all seem to belong on Meta. Can anybody think of a purpose served by this tag that's on-topic for SO?
Maybe if someone attempts to use it they can be notified that:
Hey, if you're asking a question about StackOverflow, why not hop over to http:/...